Stop Polluters - Latest Developments

the Sierra Club released a new report detailing the damage from outdated once-through cooling systems used by power plants in the Gulf of Mexico; the Mississippi River; the Hudson River, New York Harbor and Long Island Sound; the California Coast; the Great Lakes and the Chesapeake Bay.

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Task Force Fails to Address Nuclear Waste Storage Risk and Inadequacy of 10 Mile Evacuation Zone

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As Jeff Donn reports in his four part Aging Nukes Associated Press series, populations around nuclear power plants in our country have swelled as much as 4 1/2 times since 1980, but some estimates of evacuation times have not been updated in decades and evacuation zones have remained frozen at a 10-mile radius from each plant since they were set in 1978.

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Paul Gallay, Executive Director & Hudson Riverkeeper and environmental attorney Reed Super talk about how power plants using once-through cooling technology to cool their turbines and produce electricity are destroying the Hudson River's fish and aquatic life in this important new video.

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The annual assessment meeting held on June 2 for Indian Point 2 and 3 drew its largest crowd ever as nearly 500 concerned citizens let the NRC know that the agency's business as usual review and rubber stamping of the plant's relicensing will not be tolerated.

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(The following is a message sent by Riverkeeper to representatives for Congressman Engel and Congresswoman Lowey prior to a visit of the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant)

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Misleading Entergy propaganda continually touts that the alleged “clean” and “cheap” energy generated by Indian Point is “vital” to the region. The truth is, we do NOT need Indian Point’s electricity! Here are the real facts...

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Nowhere to put Indian Point’s highly-radioactive spent fuel – IP’s storage pools are already overfilled with spent fuel rods from the last 40 years of operations. The spent fuel pools are also leaking radioactive water into the ground and the Hudson River.

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The staff of Riverkeeper sends its condolences to the victims of the Honshu earthquake, and we express our sincere hope that the current problems at the Fukushima Nuclear Plant will be resolved soon without further releases of radiation. Unfortunately, this unfolding crisis makes real the inherent risks of generating electricity from nuclear power, particularly near densely populated metropolitan areas.

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